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Dr. Ernst Elster, professor at the University of Marburg, Germany, 

 and exchange professor at Cornell University. The Washington 

 Society of the Archaeological Institute of America met on April 3 

 to listen to a lecture on " Raphael," illustrated with lantern slides, 

 by Prof. O. S. Tonks, of Vassar College. On the morning of April 

 17 a special program of American music was rendered under the 

 auspices of the Friday Morning Music Club, and in the evening of 

 the same day Sir William Willcocks, of Cairo, Egypt, lectured before 

 the Home Club of the Department of the Interior, on " Reclamation 

 and drainage in Egypt." The College Women's Association of Wash- 

 ington was given facilities for a meeting on April 21. 



There w^ere only three congresses during the year which made any 

 use of the Museum's accommodations, and in connection with each of 

 them but one meeting was held there. The Third International Con- 

 gress of Refrigeration met in Chicago, but the formal opening session 

 was held in the Museum auditorium on the morning of September 15, 

 1913, when an address of welcome to the delegates was delivered by 

 the Secretary of State, Hon. William Jennings Bryan. The fourth 

 annual meeting of the American Association for Study and Preven- 

 tion of Infant Mortality occurred in Washington from November 14 

 to 17, and the address of its president, Dr. L. Emmett Holt, of New 

 York, was given in the auditorium on the evening of the 14th, fol- 

 lowed by an informal reception to Dr. Holt in the exhibition halls on 

 the first floor. The Third International Congress on the Welfare of 

 the Child, under the auspices of the National Congress of Mothers 

 and Parent Teacher Associations, meeting in Washington from April 

 22 to 27, occupied the auditorium on the evening of the 25th for one 

 of its sessions. 



On the evening of April 18, 1914, a reception to the Daughters of 

 the American Revolution was given by the Secretary of the Institu- 

 tion. 



The Department of Agriculture held numerous meetings relating 

 to its work, using sometimes the auditorium but more often the 

 larger committee room, and occasionally also the foyer when there 

 were specimens to exhibit. A hearing on the question of establish- 

 ing Federal grades for commercial corn was given on October 29. 

 1913, and another relative to the enforcement of the food and drugs 

 act on November 5. The food, dairy, and drug officials of the Bureau 

 of Chemistry met on November 14 and 15 ; the annual conference of 

 State and district leaders in farm management demonstration and 

 club work was held, under the Office of Farm Management, from 

 December 15 to 18 ; and the Federal Horticultural Board conducted 

 a hearing on December 18 on the subject of potato quarantine. The 

 Bureau of Plant Industry held weekly afternoon lectures from De- 

 cember 17 to March 11, except during the holiday season, dealing 



